What Marilyn Monroe Had
Director Billy Wilder called it "flesh impact."
"Flesh impact is rare," he said. "Three I remember who had it were Clara Bow, Jean Harlow and Rita Hayworth. Such girls have flesh which photographs like flesh. You feel you can reach out and touch it."
Writer Nunnally Johnson compared MM to the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls. "You can’t talk to it. It can’t talk to you. All you can do is stand back and be awed by it," he said.
A journalist once asked about her a photo shoot. "You mean you didn’t have anything on?" The journalist sounded scandalized, so Marilyn replied, "Oh yes, I had the radio on."
"You know what I do on hot days like this? I keep my undies in the ice box."